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Former employees of dog-walking startup Wag, which raised $300M from SoftBank and replaced CEO in Jan. 2018, describe slowed growth, multiple layoffs, and more (Sara Ashley O'Brien/CNN)

{$inline_image} Sara Ashley O’Brien / CNN: Former employees of dog-walking startup Wag, which raised $300M from SoftBank and replaced CEO in Jan. 2018, describe slowed growth, multiple layoffs, and more  —  (CNN)At the start of 2018, Wag looked like tech’s next Big Thing.  —  In January, the founders of the dog-walking startup announced … Former

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Former employees of dog-walking startup Wag, which raised $300M from SoftBank and replaced CEO in Jan. 2018, describe slowed growth, multiple layoffs, and more (Sara Ashley O'Brien/CNN)

Sara Ashley O’Brien / CNN: Former employees of dog-walking startup Wag, which raised $300M from SoftBank and replaced CEO in Jan. 2018, describe slowed growth, multiple layoffs, and more  —  (CNN)At the start of 2018, Wag looked like tech’s next Big Thing.  —  In January, the founders of the dog-walking startup announced … Former employees

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Sen. Warren proposes to reinstate Office of Technology Assessment, created in 1970s to help Congress legislate on science and tech; OTA was dissolved in 1990s (Makena Kelly/The Verge)

Makena Kelly / The Verge: Sen. Warren proposes to reinstate Office of Technology Assessment, created in 1970s to help Congress legislate on science and tech; OTA was dissolved in 1990s  —  ‘Our representatives shouldn’t have to rely on Google’s policy team’  —  Over the past few years, some of the largest tech firms … Sen.

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Podcast: Amazon’s 80 announcements and Facebook’s Oculus Connect conference

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge The week on The Vergecast, we covered two events that happened simultaneously on Wednesday: Amazon’s fall Alexa and Echo product event and Facebook’s Oculus Connect virtual reality developer conference. Amazon had 80 announcements at its event in Seattle, Washington, so Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Adi Robertson, Ashley Carman,

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UK police just sold criminally-seized Bitcoin for above market rates

UK police raised £300,000 ($369,000) through the auction of criminally-seized Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency this week, achieving over market value. The sales, a first for UK police, occurred across two unreserved auctions that were finalized on September 26 via Irish firm Wilsons Auctions. In total, 62 lots of cryptocurrency were sold, which included Bitcoin, Ethereum,

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Booksy, an online marketplace and business management app for beauty services, raises $28.5M Series B2, bringing the total raised to $48.7M (FinSMEs)

FinSMEs: Booksy, an online marketplace and business management app for beauty services, raises $28.5M Series B2, bringing the total raised to $48.7M  —  Booksy, a San Francisco, CA-based mobile marketplace for appointment-driven beauty services, raised $28.5m in Series B2 financing. Booksy, an online marketplace and business management app for beauty services, raises .5M Series B2,

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A D.C.-area service station just became the nation’s first to ditch gasoline for electric energy. What happens next is anyone’s guess.

RS Automotive will become the first service station in the nation to completely convert their equipment from offering gasoline to 100 percent electric power. A D.C.-area service station just became the nation’s first to ditch gasoline for electric energy. What happens next is anyone’s guess. Source: Washington Post Tech

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